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From:   Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
To:     David Daney <ddaney@caviumnetworks.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] MIPS: crazy spinlock speed test.
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On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 03:26:35PM -0800, David Daney wrote:

> This is just a test program for raw_spinlocks.  The main reason I
> wrote it is to validate my spinlock changes that I sent in a previous
> patch.
> 
> To use it enable CONFIG_DEBUG_FS and CONFIG_SPINLOCK_TEST then at run
> time do:
> 
> # mount -t debugfs none /sys/kernel/debug/
> # cat /sys/kernel/debug/mips/spin_single
> # cat /sys/kernel/debug/mips/spin_multi
> 
> On my 600MHz octeon cn5860 (16 CPUs) I get
> 
> 		spin_single	spin_multi
> base		106885		247941
> spinlock_patch	75194		219465
> 
> This shows that for uncontended locks the spinlock patch gives 41%
> improvement and for contended locks 12% improvement (1/time).
> 
> Signed-off-by: David Daney <ddaney@caviumnetworks.com>

Also queued for 2.6.34.

Thanks!

  Ralf